DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Balsamorhiza sagittata | Arrowleaf Balsamroot 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Arrowleaf balsamroot occurs from the Sierra Nevada of California
northward along the east side of the Cascades into British Columbia and
east to Saskatchewan, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and Colorado.


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands


STATES : 
     CA  CO  MT  NV  OR  SD  UT  WA  BC  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIHO  BICA  BLCA  BRCA  COLM  CODA
     CRMO  DETO  DINO  FOBU  GLAC  GRTE
     LAVO  LABE  MEVE  NOCA  ROMO  SEQU
     YELL  YOSE  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    2  Cascade Mountains
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   217  Aspen
   219  Limber pine
   237  Interior ponderosa pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Arrowleaf balsamroot occurs in many dry grassland, shrub, and forest
habitat types within its range, especially in sagebrush-grass,
bitterbrush, mountain-mahogany, open juniper, ponderosa pine, limber
pine, and Douglas-fir habitat types.  It also occurs in some subalpine
fir and aspen habitat types.  It is typically abundant in mountain big
sagebrush habitats.

Published listing arrowleaf balsamroot as an indicator or dominant in
community types (cts) or habitat types (hts) are presented below.

   Area                 Classification                   Authority
       
   CO: White River-     grassland, shrubland &           Hess & Wasser 1982
       Arapaho NF       forest hts
wc ID                   grassland & shrubland hts, cts   Tisdale 1986

Related categories for Species: Balsamorhiza sagittata | Arrowleaf Balsamroot